Nursing Ethics Journal
The international journal Nursing Ethics has grown in size and importance since its beginning. It is available online as part of a personal and institutional subscription: nursing-ethics.com. The current contents can be found here.
An International Journal for Health Care Professionals
Nursing Ethics:
- is a resource for nurses, midwives, health visitors and professionals in the rehabilitation and related disciplines
- provides a forum for studies in the morality, ethics and law of the caring professions
- relates to professional development in its practical approach to topics.
Editor: Ann Gallagher, University of Surrey, UK.
The Journal appears six times a year: ISSN 0969-7330
SAGE Publishers
Nursing Ethics:
- carries empirical studies concerning ethical and legal issues, conceptual analyses of modes of thought in health care, comparative and cross-cultural studies
- analyses official documents and codes of conduct from statutory bodies, professional organisations, government departments and health authorities
- focuses on political and policy issues as they affect the health care professionals
- has a special interest in the accountability of the professions vis-a-vis management, inter-professional relations, patient rights and welfare
- examines topical issues and news items
- debates contentious issues in specific fields of care
- discusses connections between ethical and legal issues
- deals with issues of politics, gender, the environment of care, management and administration
- also covers issues of spiritual care and philosophy of care
Nursing Ethics features commissioned and non-commissioned articles, case studies, codes and declarations, news items, book reviews, comments, correspondence and notices of meetings, events and conferences. All articles are anonymously refereed.
Correspondence, comments and documents should be sent to the editor directly.
Nursing Ethics is abstracted/listed in:
- Academic Sear Premier
- Applied Social Sciences Index and Abstracts (ASSIA)
- BDlic
- Bibliography of Bioethics
- British Nursing Index
- Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature (CINAHL)
- English National Board for Nursing, Midwifery and Health Visiting
- Health Care Database
- Fundacion Index
- Index Medicus/MEDLINE
- International Nursing Index
- ISI Current Contents/Social and Behavioural Sciences
- ISI Discovery Agent
- Nursing Abstracts
- Philospher's Index
- RCM Current Awareness Service
- Social Sciences Citation Index (also known as Social SciSearch)
Consultant Editors
Sarah Banks, University of Durham, UK
Marja Bohinc, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
Janie Butts, University of Southern Mississippi, Hatiesburg, MS, USA
Bart Cusveller, Christian University of Applied Sciences, Ede, Netherlands
John Cutliffe, University of Maine, USA
Gill Hinshelwood, Medical Foundation for the Care of Victims of Torture, UK
Emiko Konishi, Saku University, Saku-City, Japan
Shigeko Izumi, Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, USA
Soodabeh Joolaee, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
Jean McHale, University of Birmingham, UK
Kathleen Oberle, University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Elizabeth Peter, University of Toronto, ON, Canada
Gavin Rennie, UNITEC, Auckland, New Zealand
Karen Rich, University of Southern Mississippi, Gulport, MS, USA
Pirkko Routasalo, University of Helsinki, Finland
Mikko Salmela, University of Helsinki, Finland
Katherine Smith, University of Missouri, Kansas City, USA
Huey-Ming Tzeng, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA
Maritta Valimaki, University of Turku, Finland
Vasso Vydelingum, University of Surrey, UK
Joy Wingfield, Nottingham University, UK
Nursing Ethics Archive
To view archive copies of Nursing Ethics please visit the SAGE website.
